Alfredo Joignant Rondon is a Chilean sociologist and political science professor at the Diego Portales University.
He has published in journals of international prestige such as Sociological Perspectives, Sociology Compass, Memory Studies, Democratization, Journal of Latin American Studies, Revista mexicana de sociología, Cahiers internationaux de sociologie, Politix.
[2] He is the co-author (with Fernando Atria, Javier Couso, José Miguel Benavente and Guillermo Larraín) of El otro modelo.
Joignant has on the other side being deeply critical of Axel Kaiser's and Gloria Álvarez's book El engaño populista which he called "confuse", "harmful" and "very bad".
[4][5] In 2018 Joignant sparred with Daniel Jadue, a defender of the Maduro government, in televised debate over the situation in Venezuela.